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A08896	Fiscus papalis. Siue, Catalogus indulgentiarum & reliquiarum septem principalium ecclesiarum vrbis Romæ. Ex vetusto manuscripto codice vere & fideliter descriptus. = A part of the Popes exchequer, that is A catalogue of the indulgences and reliques belonging to the seauen principall churches in Rome. Laying downe the spirituall riches and infinite treasure which (as sure as the Pope is holy & true) are to be found in the Catholike Roman Church, whereof the poore heretikes in England haue not one mite. Taken out of an antient manuscript, and translated. Together with certaine notes and comments explaining the more difficult place, for the ease and helpe of good Catholikes, who had best goe to Rome, to trie the vertue of the glorious indulgences. By a Catholike diuine.	Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.	1617 (1617)	STC 19174; ESTC S114000	84,865	184

seuentie one 3 Pope Siluester in his Canonicall Bull assigned and granted that in euery parochiall or Cathedrall Church in the Citie of Rome as namely to the Church of Saint Peter the Apostle to the Church of blessed Paul to the Church of Saint Iohn in the Laterane and to the Church of blessed Mary the greater to euery man that should enter into any one of the foresaid holy Churches whensoeuer how oft soeuer and what time of the yeare soeuer they come seuen and forty yeares of pardon 4 47 yeares of pardon for each time a man enters into any one of these Churches O wicked Lutherans to charge the Church of Rome with couetousnesse See what a bountifull liberall Lady shee is to her followers who would not trudge from France or England to Rome for such vocall rewards If the Lutherans beleeued this surely they would come to Rome also But as for the next indulgence or releasement of their enioyned penances and as many quarantens and remission of the third part of all their sinnes Also in the same Church there is an ascent consisting of nine and twentie steppes which whosoeuer shall ascend or descend deuoutly without mortall sinne 5 that whosoeuer goes vp or downe these steps without mortall sinne shall haue seuen yeares pardon they beleeue that to be very true but they say that clause Without mortall sinne was wisely put in and to good purpose so oft as he doth it he shall receiue for euery step 7 yeares of pardon or shall bee released of so much of his penances enioyned and this is graunted by Pope Alexander Moreouer in the same Church there be seauen hundred and fiue altars 6 Oh base beggerly Balaam that had but his 7 altars But here the glorious Church of Rome hath 700 in one Church Balaam may certainely be abasht and hide his face But who would not pitty the poore Caluinists and Lutherans come in to one of their Churches you shall finde a poore Pulpit and a plain Cōmunion table whereas here you finde 20. 30. 50. 100. altars in a Church besides many pretious relicks many rich Copes and Vestments and goodly gilded Images whereof some can weepe and laugh and speake moue and some are appareled most costly Who would not leaue that beggerly religion embrace this rich roiall and stately Religion of Rome which how oftsoeuer any man shall deuoutly visit so often there be granted vnto him for euery altar seuen yeares of pardon also at euery one of these altars when the feast of Saint Peter is kept there be eighteene yeares of pardon and as manie Quarantens And remission of the third part of all sinnes Amongst all these altars there be seuen which are priuiledged with greater grace holinesse and dignitie then all the rest In the first Altar is the handkercher 7 This handkercher the good Lady Veronica as Christ came by her doore carying his Crosse gaue him to wipe his face who laying it on his face fourthwith gaue it her againe with the picture of his face in it which is now euery yeare shewed and scene with great deuotion The Caluinists prate that there is no good history to warrant this and say further that if Christ had left any such monument behinde him some of the Euangelists would haue put it downe who haue not omitted lesser matters and they say that twenty to one this is made by art and hath beene often trimmed but not a pin matter what they say for they be heretikes of our Lord wherein is to bee seene the picture or face of Christ which whensoeuer it is shewed to the people then al the people of Rome haue seauen thousand yeares of pardon and as many quarantens And all people dwelling abroad out of Rome haue nine thousand yeres of pardon and as many quarantens But as for them which to see this sight doe come from beyond the seas or from beyond the hills they haue twelue thousand yeares of pardon and as many quarantens And remission of the third part of all their sinnes The second altar is the altar of the blessed Virgin Marie The third is Saint Andrewes altar The fourth is the altar of Saint Gregorie the Pope ouer against his Sepulcher The fifth is the altar of Saint Leo the Pope standing in the place where himselfe once said Masse at which Masse he being blind receiued his sight The sixt is the altar of the two Apostles Simon and Iude. The seuenth and last of these principall and priuileged altars is the altar of the holie Crosse wherunto women 8 It is deliuered held for a truth that a woman namely Helen Constantines mother first found the Crosse yet now wemen may not approach to the altar of the Crosse See what holy and deepe and secret mysteries are in the Roman religion may not approach At euery one of these altars there are euery day seauen yeares of pardon Also Gregorie the Pope gaue and graunted to the high altar of this Church that there should be at it Indulgence and pardon of sinnes forgotten and vowes broken and of all offences to father and mother sauing the laying of violent hands vpon them to these he granted eight and twenty yeares of pardon and as manie quarantens 9 And why doe the Heretikes carpe at this that the Popes holinesse pardons them that abuse their father and mother for did nor the Pharises the like Math. 15. 5. 6. and hath not his holinesse the like or more power then the Pharisezes had Moreouer from the Assention of our Lord to the Ides of August there bee euery day in that Church foureteene yeares of pardon and this pardon of Indulgence 10 Why this time is more blessed then the rest Heretikes curiously doe cauill and say that by the Law wee are forbidden to regard times But doe not they know that his Holinesse is free from all Lawes doth also last and is of force in and through the Octaues of Saint Martine the Bishop There bee also many more indulgences as the Chronickles doe record belonging to this Church euen so many as are past numbring but in the time of lent how manie soeuer they be they be all doubled 11 Oh glorious Roman Church that hath so many Indulgēces in one Church for her children as are past numbring But behold a greater wonder In Lent these be all dubled So then out of Lent they be innumerable and in Lent innumerable are dubled How many then be these Indulgences in Lent let all these idle Heretikes and curious Caluinists tell if they can Now this Church was dedicated by Saint Siluester vpon the feast day of Saint Martine vpon which day there is to bee had in the Church full remission of all sinnes And in all and euery of the feasts of Saint Peter and Saint Paul and of the blessed Virgin Marie there be in this Church a thousand yeares of pardon and as

and since him Villamont d Villamont therefore no good Catholicke may doubt of the truth and validity hereof vnlesse hee will deny such grounds as may not without mortall sin be cald in question b Here be not all but a great part and yet there bee in one Church 33000 yeares of pardon for once going vp one paire of staires and in another Church is to be had within the compasse of one yeare more then two and twenty hundred thousand yeares of pardon Oh what a glorious treasure the Pope is Lord of his Exchequer is neuer empty and what silly fooles are the Heretickes to depriue themselues they know not of what c We read say the Caluinists in the fathers of bookes Canonicall and the Papists tell vs of houres Canonicall but of any booke called by the name of Canonicall it selfe or any thing else so called they might do well to haue told vs more plainly and particularly for Possevine the Iesuite their good friend who takes vpon him so exactly to describe all Authors and their bookes speaking of this Silvester mentioneth no such Booke therfore take heed this Canonicall proue not some Apocriphal hidden and forged story Thus prate the Heretickes out of their ignorance and presumption not knowing that the holy and authenticall Canon law of the Pope teacheth in the Decree that the Popes Decretall Epistles are numbred amongst Canonicall Scriptures but these Caluinists care little it seemes what the Popes law saith they are all for Scripture Scripture and that makes them such Heretickes as they be d If this be true that there were in Siluesters time 1505 Churches in Rome how comes it to passe say the Heretickes that the greater number is now defaced it cannot bee said to bee done in time of persecution for in Siluesters time the persecutions of the Heathen were all ceased What then hath Popish deuotion puld downe the Churches that the persecutions left standing Hath Rome been Gods Church and Gods house all these yeares and yet puld downe aboue 800 Churches They accuse Protestants of pulling downe Churches but they cannot shew so many puld downe in this whole kingdome as here they haue done in one Citie And for these that are downe mens corruptions not our religion tooke them away sauing some few which being needlesse and superfluous others or more in places more needfull haue been erected for them But if any good Catholicke heare any Hereticke babling on this fashion stoppe his mouth presently and tell him that their Churches beeing Hereticall Churches therefore the more the worse e None may say Masse at these Altars but the Pope or those that haue license from him but hee tels vs not say the Caluinists who may preach in their Pulpits An idle obiection and so let all good Catholickes hold it for what is Preaching to a Masse euen nothing at all nay it s hard to say whether the Roman Church hath got more good by Masses or hurt by preaching and therefore let all deuout Catholickes neuer stumble at it if in all Catholicke bookes they finde the altar so much spoken of and the pulpit so little the Altar so magnified and the Pulpit set aside for his Holinesse well knoweth it is the Altar that sends him in his rent hee neuer got any thing by the Pulpits what he hath lost by them hee knowes and feeles so well that if he knew how to carry it cleanly he would rid his Churches as cleane of them as he hath done of the Bibles in the vulgar tongue In the meane time his Holinesse out of great wisedome is content that any disgraces be cast vpon Preaching that can bee deuised insomuch as if any bee great preachers in Catholicke Countries it is enough to suspect them for heretickes and their bookes must be purged witnesse Stella Ferus and many others and though Christ and the Scriptures seeme to magnifie preaching neuer so much yet good Catholickes must not care for it but must know that Christ spake what was fit for those times but his Holinesse knowes and must appoint what is fit for these times and therefore hee will notwithstanding giue it what place he list And if any man offer to compare it with the Masse it is little better then Heresie But Frier Lobo a great preacher in Rome could not containe but in the hearing of Pope Gregory the 13 deliuered this in the Pulpit That it is of greater worth before God and more profitable to the doer to heare Gods Word preached then to see a Masse But what followed His holy stomacke could digest no such doctrine nor indure such blasphemy against his God and therefore forthwith he constrained the poore Frier to go vp againe and in the same place to eate his words to teach the contrary Thus he made him in the Pulpit to disgrace the Pulpit in the place of preaching to disparage preaching And not thus content he also susspended the Frier from preaching yea his recantation could not keepe him from suspension and no maruell for hee that durst magnifie preaching aboue the Masse is not a man fit to preach in Rome * Bapt. Corradus Resp cas con To. 2o. quaest 253. art 2o. Nauar. in Manual cap. 13. art 30. Fumus in verb. Festum pag. 378. Neither is this practise contrary to our doctrine for do not our Iesuits and Casuists teach and write that as vpon the Sabboth day the Commandement of the Sabboth enioynes not the inward worship of God but onely the outward * Soto de Iust Iure lib. 2. q. 4. art 4. Iac. de Graf de decis aur To. 1o. lib. 2o. cap. 34. art 8. Azor. Institut Moral To. 1o. lib. 7o. cap. 3. q. 6. Posseu Bib. sel To. 1o. l. 11. cap. 1o. a peece of rare Diuinity So also that that outward or exterior worship only commanded in that Commandement consisteth onely in hearing the Masse and as for praying or hearing of Sermons they are not of the essence of that Commandement Nay our Church say they hath no law for hearing or being present at any part of Gods seruice but onely at the Masse nor is it any where a custome in the Catholike Church that a man is bound vnder paine of mortall sinne to pray to God on the Sabboth day or heare the word preached but onely to heare a Masse Oh sweete and dainty doctrines And these be no triuiall Doctors but of our chiefe ring-leaders especially * Molanus Comp. pract Theol. Tract 2o. c. 9o. Azorius who was one of the principall founders of Iesuitisme This was he whom as Possevine reporteth Gregory the thirteenth called to Rome to be one of them that should make lawes and orders for the whole society This holy Iesuite hauing gotten some secret inspiration from his Holinesse and suckt out of the Popes owne breast more pure Popery then all the rest he goeth further and saith It is the common opinion that there is no Diuine law compelling or commanding

Christians to heare Sermons on the Sabboth or festiuall dayes And whereas there was so much goodnesse in the Councell of Trent as the Heretickes call it or rather so much curiosity as we may say as to decree that Bishops should diligently admonish their people and tell them that they are bound to come to their parish Churches to heare Gods word Azorius the Iesuite hath answere ready that the Bishops are bid to warne them not to compell them and if that seeme too slight he hath a better in store whereas saith he the Councell would haue them come to heare Gods word that must be vnderstood of the Gospell in the Masse for is there not a Gospell read in euery Masse and is not the Gospell Gods word Then he that comes to the Masse heares a Gospell read and consequently heares Gods word Is not here deepe diuinity and shall not an ignorant man be well edified when hee heares a peece of the Gospell read in Latine whereof he vnderstandeth not one word Yes doubtlesse saith learned Ledesma the Iesuit if they come with deuotion and a good intent Thus then you see that preaching is a meane matter in respect of the Masse And this is the reason why here and elsewhere in our Liturgies and chiefe and best bookes of state as our Missall Pontificall Ceremoniall Sacerdotall and the like for one mention of a Sermon and a Pulpit you shall heare a hundred times of an Altar and a Masse And if this bee done by the Church and that Church cannot erre then all good Catholickes must know that not Pulpits Preaching but Altars and Masses must they looke after The Heretickes I confesse do hereat take great offence and hereupon doe cauill and raile bitterly and say that it is no maruel to see the pope preferre the Altar before the Pulpit a Masse before preaching for say they and my eares haue heard them say it to my great griefe if they gained no more by the one then the other his Holinesse would be faine to strike saile for the wings of his pride would soon be clipt He tels vs say they of a miracle in Transubstantiation that the Bread and Wine are turned into Christs Body and Bloud and there remaines nothing but the fashion colour or likenesse of Bread and wine But as our faith findes none such in Scripture no more doth our bodily sence finde it in experience But we can tell them of a much more true and sensible wonder daily amongst them for their Pulpits are transubstantiated if we may be so bold with their word for Gods it is not into Altars their Preachers into Priests their Sermons into Sacrifices their Bibles into Missals and these are so absolutely altered and really changed that indeed there remaines nothing but names and shadowes For the other haue the substance Pulpits say they are for Lent Altars for euery day Masses are commanded Sermons but aduised Sermons may doe well but Masses are necessary The Bible hath bred many heresies but the Masse booke breeds and feedes deuotion Therefore Gods Dan. 11. 36 37. 38. booke the Bible is to be remoued from the people as a dangerous thing and the Masse booke of mans making is to bee their daily bread Is not this the same say they or as bad that Daniel prophesieth of that there shall be a King that shall doe what him list and shall exalt himselfe and magnifie himselfe against all that is God and speake maruellous things against the God of Gods and shall prosper till the wrath be accomplished c. Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers nor the desires of women nor care for any God for hee shall magnifie himselfe aboue all And in stead of God shall worship his God Mauzzim euen the God that his fathers knew not Whether their Masse be this Mauzzim here meant or no say they we affirme not once this is cleere that hee hath turned his Masse into a Mauzzim and made an Idoll of it and worships in it a God of his owne making a God that his fathers knew not for his transubstantiation and his propitiatory sacrifice which two be the life and soule of the Masse were not knowne in the ancient and purest Church for 500 yeares after Christ And this Mauzzim is set vp in the very roome of God For since the Masse was erected vnto this height it is at Christ neuer had his due but was despoiled of his Offices and Honour Gods booke cast aside and a Masse booke laid in his place Sermons accounted but things indifferent or conuenient but Masses the onely necessary duty of the Sabboth day And as he here saith No man may say Masse at the high Altars of the seuen Churches in Rome but the Pope or his Deputie but you shall finde no such prerogatiue for preaching here or else-where Arise O Lord mainteine thine owne cause against that Idoll the Masse and Mauzzim of the Romish Synagogue Thus madly and extrauagantly doe these idle heretickes prate but let not this nor ought that can be brought out of Scripture trouble any good Catholicke conscience these be but the temptations of the Diuell let him hearken what the Pope teacheth who is Gods Vicar and Peters successor and if they be good Catholickes they know that he cannot erre and that whatsoeuer he doth or teacheth as he is Pope it is all one as if God did it or taught it let hereticks then if they will extoll preaching let this satisfie deuout Catholicks that here the Pope takes order for saying Masse reseruing certaine Churches to himselfe at whose high Altars none may say Masse but himselfe or some by commission from him but finde me any whose pulpits he reserues to himselfe nay finde me any in whose pulpits he will come at all No it is too base a place and preaching too painfull a duty for his holinesse hee harh something else to doe as namely to create Cardinals to translate Empires and dispose of Kingdomes to reade and answere letters from the Princes of the earth and to giue audience to their Embassadors to controll Kings when they displease his holinesse and to excommunicate them if they submit not to his pleasure and if they persist to depose them and discharge their subiects of their oath and alleageance to giue their kingdomes to whom he list and to raise their owne subiects against them to augment Saint Petars patrimony by procuring Princes and Dukes to giue him the reuersions after them to goe and take possessions of the Prouinces that fall to him by such excheates as Clemens the 5 did lately of Ferrara to make leagues betwixt Princes and to breake them when he seeth good yea though they be confirmed by Oath and Sacrament * Vide Peter Math inter constitutiones Pont. Rom. in Bulla Pauli 3. contra Henricum 8. Angliae Regem as Paul the 3. did against Henry the 8 of England Pius 5 against Elizabeth and Sixtus 5. against Henry of